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Psychogeographical Romance: 3 Interviews is now out from the phenomenal Essay Press as a free pdf chapbook, curated by Leonard Schwartz of Cross-Cultural Poetics. With Yolanda Castaño on the psychogeography of the highway, Magdalena Edwards and Forrest Gander on the psychogeography of the disappeared in Raúl Zurita, and yours truly on the psychogeography of the […]

On November 9 at noon, at Penn State (in 102 Kern), I’ll be giving a talk titled “From Corpse to Specter: Venice as Antagonist and Emblem of Modernity.” There will be lunch! When in 1910, F.T. Marinetti and comrades airbombed crowds with 800,000 copies of the Futurist manifesto “Against Passéist Venice” from the Clock Tower […]

Amici e Romani! Friends & Romans! A piece I made in cutting homage to Melville’s Battle-Pieces and his fascination with Piranesi, titled “of the Monitor’s Fight,” is now installed in “Una Vetrina” storefront gallery, off the Via Giulia near San Giovanni dei Fiorentini. Come out to see it—it’s visible 24/7 for the coming week. Ho […]

For the summer of 2015, the WUHO Gallery on Hollywood Boulevard has been transformed by the Institute into an open laboratory. Work on emerging spatial environments has generated salons, workshops, performances, and rituals by residents, rogue scientists, and radical philologists. See the outcomes and their byproducts on the last night of Open Laboratories: The Grand […]

Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice has been named one of 5 titles in a shortlist of finalists for the Modernist Studies Association Annual Book Prize for 2015. Here is the judges’ citation: Jennifer Scappettone, Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia) In Killing the Moonlight, Jennifer Scappettone performs a scholarly quarry of a city […]

It was fantastic to have the chance to think through this forum on contemporary translation and politics with such admired colleagues and comrades in translation and translation-based practices. I only wish we’d been able to have this conversation in person! (It was so fast, it was almost like speaking…) With Sandra Simonds, who organized it; […]

I have a piece on “the thick and the slow of knowledge“—on knowledge that’s not front-loaded—in Jacket2’s feature on the poet-scholar, which is indebted to the work of our dear lost friend and colleague Hillary Gravendyk. From the feature page: The poet and literary critic Hillary Gravendyk organized a roundtable on the “Poet-Scholar” for the […]

please join us for the launch of the INSTITUTE SUMMER SESSIONS: OPEN LABORATORIES at WUHO’s Spatial Research Facility SATURDAY, MAY 9 7-9 PM 6518 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028 http://wuho.architecture.woodbury.edu For the summer of 2015, the WUHO Gallery on Hollywood Boulevard is being transformed into an open laboratory. Work on emerging spatial environments will […]

Tomorrow evening, April 29, at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, I’ll present work in progress on the gnarled histories of architecture, poetry, and nation-building that converge in the construction of a great museum on the part of a group of Italian immigrants/émigrés between Rome and São Paulo—and try to sketch out how public space, poetic […]

I’m honored to be giving the closing lecture for the CHIASMI conference hosted by the graduate students in Italian Studies at Harvard and Brown Universities next weekend. My talk’s title has been altered in tandem with its theme: “Chloris as Translation, and the Dream of a Transhistorical Language.” It’ll open a final roundtable discussion at […]

On Wednesday, April 22, at 5:30 pm, I will be talking about Venice as an antagonist & emblem of modernity at Brown University. Very much looking forward to meeting up with the lively community in Italian studies, English, comparative literature, and gender studies there.

After a circuitous journey, Roberto Harrison’s 200-page procedural poem for Noemi Press has arrived at my door. Here’s what I wrote for the back cover: “The outcome of four years’ ascetic endurance in the form of biking, meditation, and writing through all sublimities and cruelties of quotidian life and Milwaukee weather, Roberto Harrison’s perseverant sentences—issuing […]

Judd Morrissey and I will be presenting an evolving collaborative exploration of geospatial situatedness—Exit 43’s conceptual “pop-up pastorals” in the context of mixed-reality poetics & ubiquitous data-poisons—at next weekend’s &NOW Festival at CalArts, Friday, March 27 at 8 pm. We’re honored to be thinking through the challenges of the collaborative process over time alongside the […]

Excited to have 3 new pieces from the Exit 43 project in a collective analog exhibition called “Descrizione del Mondo” that will accompany this “Libera Occupazione Poetica” (Free Poetic Occupation) in Turin. The exhibit will be up through the summer, and is curated by Andrea Inglese. More details to come, but here’s the shape of […]

Last month I had the pleasure and honor of speaking at length with Leonard Schwartz, poet, professor at Evergreen College, and host of the pathbreaking radio program Cross-Cultural Poetics, about Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice. PennSound, the online archive hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, now has these radio programs posted, ready to be […]

Please join me for a discussion of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, which is hot off the presses from Columbia University Press, with the remarkable scholars of modernism Maud Ellmann and Rebecca West. The event will take place at Chicago’s legendary Seminary Co-op Bookstore this Monday, 11/10/14, at 6 pm. I’ll […]

Obrigada a Régis Bonvicino for including me in the interview sessions with contemporary poets hosted by the Brazilian journal Sibila. The series includes phenomenal writers from all over: Nanni Balestrini, Liliane Giraudon, Josely Vianna Baptista, Maggie O’Sullivan, and on and on… Sibila‘s premise: Contemporary places for poetry There are plenty of moments in our current life […]